and i don't know about you


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But I find that listening to people who never stopped trying to bring forth the truth does soothe my aching nerves when things are so unrelentingly dismal-to-outright-apocalyptic in this world.


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Having mostly been attracted to commitment-phobic men my whole life, my grandmother was my most trusted Valentine. I don't even know what day it is most years. Sorry.

I hope your day will be excellent... even though remembering it's only ever been mostly inneffective, even though the intent behind having a day for it might've been good, and not completely mercenary.


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someone i want to hear still less


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And WON'T. It is enough to know the object is to reassure the Europeans that all will go back to creation of a global police state as soon as we've buried Donald. Fucking insurrectionist traitors.


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we have to listen


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To this guy I very seriously do not like or trust. I don't think I can be talked out of it. He's been very heavily counseled, point by point, to make this speech. I don't even think he wrote it. Sorry to be so negative about what is essentially something of a relief to hear... even if we can no longer be certain any of them really MEAN it.


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if you can glue yer attention to this


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The Besties are bringing up some interesting concepts here....


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we need a little serious rock music


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Or maybe a nap....


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for decades i would not watch


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Because it was ALL huffing and puffing and flubbing spectacularly. But today I was drawn in by a little picture, and what to my wonder but a 21-year-old Uzbek-American man lit me up. He's putting the art back into it and figured out how to leave the huffing and puffing and spectacular flubbing behind.

Truly, I was SO sick of the endless ugly setups for jumps that were not worth it, even if they did not go ass over tea kettle when they tried to land. It was so much carnage, punctuated by simpering or mincing careful bleh. The sport I'd found SO elegant and relaxing for so long had turned to outright shit.

This kid is putting some soul back on the ice.


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bobby's working hard


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And saving lives.


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clearly, clearly


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A ludicrous question....


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every pushbutton revolution


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On the planet has been paid for by US.


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whatever positive spin i'd thunk up


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Is all but utterly immobilized by this. Just EXTREMELY hard to find a trace of goodness, love, probity inhering such a jackassical move. I think the only positive shred left about it is that it might either kill or cure the UN... which has already wiped out most of its redeeming features.


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yes


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Yes....


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might be coming up time for my morning nap


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Yes, it's been an extremely long stretch of me sleeping in two 4-5 hours out of any 24 hour increment you pick. This started up creeping into my circus tent some forty years ago. So it's nothing new, but the duration of this cycle is starting to creep me out.


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pepe


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With Judge Nap on Iran, Russia, China....


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when i was a young thing


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I spent a LOT of time with geezers. Way more than a need for a paycheck could explain. Old people are, and have been since humans have existed, in fact, our only hope.


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dunno 'bout you


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But, yes, I can confidently report this is the real "new normal"....


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i don't mean to startle you


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But I'm a sucker for the fundamentally-true.


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